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Total Pages : 868
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Birds of New York

Birds of New York
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Total Pages : 732
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000105343465
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Synopsis Birds of New York by : Elon Howard Eaton

Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities

Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9781135855208
ISBN-13 : 113585520X
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities by : Peter N. Stearns

This book provides distinctive analysis of the full range of expressions in global education at a crucial time, when international competition rises, tensions with American foreign policy both complicate and motivate new activity, and a variety of innovations are taking shape. Citing best practices at a variety of institutions, the book provides practical coverage and guidance in the major aspects of global education, including curriculum, study abroad, international students, collaborations and branch campuses, while dealing as well with management issues and options. The book is intended to guide academic administrators and students in higher education, at a point when international education issues increasingly impinge on all aspects of college or university operation. The book deals as well with core principles that must guide global educational endeavors, and with problems and issues in the field in general as well as in specific functional areas. Challenges of assessment also win attention. Higher education professionals will find that this book serves as a manageable and provocative guide, in one of the most challenging and exciting areas of American higher education today.

Zulu Heart

Zulu Heart
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Publisher : Crossroad Press
Total Pages : 615
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Synopsis Zulu Heart by : Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes delivers the explosive follow-up to his groundbreaking alternate history novel Lion's Blood in Zulu Heart, a tale of racial unrest in a reimagined America circa 1860. Set in the late 1800s in an alternate universe in which Africa colonized the Americas, Zulu Heart continues the stories of two men from very different backgrounds. Kai is a politically important Ethiopian nobleman; Aidan, a white Irishman who was until recently Kai's slave. But just as the promise of freedom has separated these two men's fates, racial discourse is about to reunite them. A rebellion is building toward civil war. Loyalties are being drawn along the lines of homelands, namely Egypt and Ethiopia, and causing the New World to be torn into a North and a South—with Kai and Aidan caught in the crossfire.

Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University

Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 669
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ISBN-10 : 9780226109237
ISBN-13 : 0226109232
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University by : William Clark

Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University uses the history of the university and reframes the "Protestant Ethic" to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that the research university—which originated in German Protestant lands and spread globally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—developed in response to market forces and bureaucracy, producing a new kind of academic whose goal was to establish originality and achieve fame through publication. With an astonishing wealth of research, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University investigates the origins and evolving fixtures of academic life: the lecture catalogue, the library catalog, the grading system, the conduct of oral and written exams, the roles of conversation and the writing of research papers in seminars, the writing and oral defense of the doctoral dissertation, the ethos of "lecturing with applause" and "publish or perish," and the role of reviews and rumor. This is a grand, ambitious book that should be required reading for every academic.

Latin Historians

Latin Historians
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 0199222932
ISBN-13 : 9780199222933
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Latin Historians by : Christina Shuttleworth Kraus

The histories of Rome by Sallust, Livy, Tacitus and others shared the desire to demonstrate their practical applications and attempted to define the significance of the empire. Politics and military activity were the central subjects of these histories. Roman historians' claims to telling the truth probably meant they were denying bias rather than conforming to the modern tendency to be objective.

Alice Neel: Uptown

Alice Neel: Uptown
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Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Total Pages : 145
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ISBN-10 : 9781941701607
ISBN-13 : 1941701604
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Alice Neel: Uptown by : Hilton Als

Known for her portraits of family, friends, writers, poets, artists, students, singers, salesmen, activists, and more, Alice Neel created forthright, intimate, and, at times, humorous paintings that quietly engaged with political and social issues. In Alice Neel, Uptown, writer and curator Hilton Als brings together a body of paintings and works on paper of African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, and other people of color for the first time. Highlighting the innate diversity of Neel’s approach, the selection looks at those whose portraits are often left out of the art-historical canon and how this extraordinary painter captured them; “what fascinated her was the breadth of humanity that she encountered,” Als writes. The publication, which opens with a foreword by Jeremy Lewison, advisor to The Estate of Alice Neel, explores Neel’s interest in the diversity of uptown New York and the variety of people amongst whom she lived. This group of portraits includes well-known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, and a local kid who ran errands for Neel. In short and illuminating texts on specific works written in his characteristic narrative style, Als writes about the history of each sitter and offers insights into Neel and her work, while adding his own perspective. A contemporary and personal approach to the artist’s oeuvre, Als’s project is “an attempt to honor not only what Neel saw, but the generosity of her seeing.” This catalogue is published on the occasion of the 2017 exhibitions of Neel’s paintings and drawings at David Zwirner, New York, and Victoria Miro, London.

The Collection of Antiquities of the American Academy in Rome

The Collection of Antiquities of the American Academy in Rome
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 409
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ISBN-10 : 9780472119899
ISBN-13 : 0472119893
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis The Collection of Antiquities of the American Academy in Rome by : Larissa Bonfante

A comprehensive presentation of the ancient and diverse artifacts from the American Academy in Rome's collection.